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1 ! '....APRIL 2, 1875. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR OREGON. TH' BLACK issce. 'an , Every day the telegraph' brings us accounts of Legislative action in the different States where Legislatures are now in session, against the opera tions of that great Kadical infamy , the Civil Bights - Bill There ia-ao doubt that it -was the; intention of the condemned Eadical majority in Congress, in passing this Bill, to perpetuate their' power . in . this country. ' It was so avowed in debate and by the papers which sustained it. Herein there must be this prop osition, that the bill is acceptable to a majority of the pooplo of the Union; otherwise, to pass it would be a mis take a mistake of the hrst magni tude. Its introduction and passage by the Senate, in the estimation of the Cincinnati Enquirer, cost the Eadical party nearly its entire white vote in the South in 1874 and to some degreo that of the North. If this is the fact already, what will be the re sult of its final enforcement? In its application, the bill will apply to Badicals as well as Democrats. The former are just as averse, if white, to having negroes sit down with thein at publie tablos, at hotels, or at places of amusement, or in railroad cars, as are Democrats. Political equality is one thing, social equality is quite another. There are thousands of Badicals who will sustain the first that will oppose the second.' We welcome the practical test of the issue caused by this bill. , You can't logis lute men into society by human laws, The reverse has been tho thoory of the total abstinence reformation, and it has been a great failure. So far as places of amusement are con oerned, the law is. plainly uutaiiuti tutional. They are private shows held for private purposes and at pri vate charges. They are not answer able under tho law applying to com inon carriers as hotels and railroads are. Tboy are not bound to admit any person unless they choose, and they can make such distinction in rates as they please. We want no better issue to go before tho people than that of the repeal of this scan dalous measure. While declaring that there shall be no distinctions "founded upon race, color or pre vious condition , of servitude," it makes by its very terms an important one. If two blacks have a difficulty or two whites of a personal character the matter is to be doterminod by local and State tribunals. But if it is between a white and a black, the latter can bring the case into the United States Courts, of which thore are but one or two in tho State, and thus put his adversary at a great ox pense, even if lie is Innocent of the offense imputod under the law. Then, again, if an obnoxious white man while obtaining admittance to a public table at a hotel was rejocted with a kick ho might not obtain more than five dollars damages. But an obnoxious negro may obtain five hundred dollars, and at the same time have the other party imprisoned for a year. ' Those distinctions of race and polor the white pooplo will . not sustain in favor of tho black, and they will vote down the party which has so little sense as to adopt it. The next Congress, tho Enquirer thinks, should lose no time in re pealing the infamous Nogro Equality bill. A law to that ofleut, it says, would go quickly through tho House of ltepreseiitutivos, and it boliuvos there will be Conservative Senators enough to pass it through tho Senate, This is upon the supposition thutit will not be declared unconstitutional in the, meantime by the Supremo Court,, Beuator Carpeutor, of Wis consin, maintained and showed from first to last that it was a violation of the Constitution, as expounded by the Court, in all its main features. , Agreed I The Vinconnes (Ind.) Sun strikes us right whore we live when it says tho Democratic party bos tried two Now Yorkers for Presi dent in succession, '' Seymour"' and Groeloy, with defeat in both oases. Now lot us have a chutige. Give us a man of the people ouo for whom a uliout of enthusiasm will- go up all ovor the country one that the great muse of the people oun uiiile iii prais ing. Our first choice is Thomas A. Hendricks, who began tho world by booing ooi-n and digging potatoes, who has by his industry and hard study made himself tho ablost states man in Amoriea. If we fail oil him, then givo us "Old Billy Allon," whose record us a statesman is as pure aud white as tho snow-olad hills of Winter.-'- ' '' ' ""-' LiiiKRAi l'uoiDsmoN. A young widow advertises in a Cincinnati pa per that she has an income of throe IhouHuud dollars a year, - and , will marry any uiaii( young or old, who possesses tho same means, and ean produce a certificate of good charac ter. Billy Hand, of the Dalles ifuuitfaiiuer, would feather ou to her if it wasn't fur that last clause in her pi'Ol'Oi-iitiorc. ' - !; t Aeammsa to1 a careful ( (stintatt, the ;';;w-'o vahiq'of dresses worn nt tho iw York Charity Bull was Ss2,i'',h'i',K ' The net proceeds "for vhmU," wo a few figures lens. ' KEIKAY.i. A cotemporary thinks a cruel fatal ity Beems to pursue the Republicans in; all their efforts .to regain tho ground lost in tho last "lections. Much of the valuable time which Re publican Congressmen proposed to devote to legislation for the benefit of the party's future has been invest ed in tho Civil Rights bill, and the invostment is already proven to be infinitely worse than useless. It al ready fails of the dosired effect, eith er upon , Southern Democrats or Southern Republicans. Tho com ments upon it in the Southern papers show that the exact design of the bill is generally understood by Southern Democrats, and counsel the practice of such cool-headed forbear ance and patience, under the annoy ances to be imposed by the bill if it becomes a law as will make the law utterly useless to Eadical party man agers. On tho other hand, the bill need go no further than it has al ready gone in- order to compel the disintegration of tho EopUblican party at the South, where in fact very little of it now remains except what is represented by Grant's bay onets in Louisiana and his threat of bayonets in Arkansas. Leading Eo publicans in the North Carolina Leg islature the other day openly de nounced and renounced their party for its passage of Butler's Civil Eights bill in the House ol .Representatives. Their action is sure to be followed by other Southern Republicans, not a few of whom opposed the Eadical majority when the bill was before the House. By these signs, and others more ominous than those, Republi cans may learn now as well as later that a reckless and revolutionary policy is about the most disastrous that could well be devised for bolster ing up a hopelessly shattered party. TUK CONNUCTICUT KI.UCTION. The election which transpiros in Connecticut next Monday, has de veloped a most intense and bitter campaign, and both parties have made the hardest possible fight But tho Democrats have a decided advantage in being led by one of the ablost and best champions of that party in the old wooden nutmeg State. Gov. Ingersoll's administra tion has been distinguished for abil ity, honesty and economy. Tho N. Y. News says there is lib room to doubt his election, for it is confessed on all hands that his name at tho head of the ticket makes it far strong er than it could have been mado with out him, and The Boston Advertiser, a Republican journal, says tho plat form is, in the main, a good one. So, also, the Now Haven Journal and Connor," the loading Republican pa per of Connecticut, frankly confesses : "Wo find it hard, and expect to find it harder throughout the campaign, to oppose the re-election of Gov. In- gorsoll. We do oppose it solely on political grounds. Personally, we have the highest regard for Gov. In gersoll, and cousidor him one of the best cliiof magistrates which the State of Connecticut ever had." We confidently look for a complete victory in that State next Holiday. This perils that attend the publish ing of an anti-Grant nowsp'apor in a locality whoso oourt machinery is controlled by oarpet-bag thieves, are about to be illustrated by the trial of the proprietors of The Charleston News and Courier oil a criminal suit for "libeling" tho bigamist Bowen and his procious gang. These in jured innocents have procured tho indictment of tho nowspaper mon on eight counts, enough to insure thorn, if they are convicted, a residence in the publio works at tho expense of the Btato for the remainder of their natural lives. ' What renders tho prospect peculiarly cheerful is the circumstance that Bowan, aB a Sheriff of the county of Charleston, super vises the impamicling of juries, and eau easily pack tho jury which will try his caso with his own creatures. The oftonso of the newspapor was the calling of Bowen and the other mem bers of tho carpet-bag ring by their right namos during tho late political Canvass. It is expected that all that is decent mid rosponsiblo in South Carolina will stand stoadfastly by its newspapor champions in this exi gency,' and tuat K Uio olinmpions have to go to jail, that edifice will not be large enough to hold all who will go with' them. Shoriff Bowen will have a largo job on hand if he attempts to arrest all who are de termined that the press shall be free to rebuko official corruption. A Lkuit-Wkioht. A Mrs. Oliver, of Dubuque, Iowa, a few days ago, gave birth to a "humming-bird" of a baby, a girl, weight only one and one-half pounds. Yot it is vigorous, aud luktB its proper food with as much evident relish as young infants usually do. It is but seven inches long, and a finger-ring worn by one of the visitors, who called to pay their respects to tho little stranger, passed over its hand, and would an swer for a bracelet. A mivsTKn Judge of Chicago lust Monday sentenced tho editor of the Time to toil day's imprisoumont for contempt, bocauso the editor spoke disrespectfully of tho Judge in his y'aiior, urtd now tho Judge will have to sentence the wholo of Chicago to the Kiiuie penalty as ever lady is ex pressing contempt foj his conduct. Prom SprlnftficM (Jfasn.) Republican, Mar. 5.1 CIVIL, IUUIITS WITH UA VOMITS. While the House on Saturday was busily knocking away the underpin ning of bur political structure, tho Senate was voting on the Civil Eights Bill. The most rioiablo foatures of the debate were tho powerful legal argument of Mr. Carponter against the bill, and the first recitation of Mr. Edmunds' stump speech for the campaign of next year. It is a very good speech of its sort, and practice may be expected to make Mr. Ed munds perfect in its dolivery. He has certainly begun in nmple season. The readors of this journal old or new, do not need to be told that it believes heartily in tho principle of equal rights, and welcomes every honost and hopeful attompt to re duce this principle to practice. It does this because it believes the prin ciple to bo rooted in that justice which Justinian defines as the con stant and perpetual will be to render to oveiy man his own. Tho pooror and more ignorant a man is, the more abject his condition has been, the more jealously should society protect him against any unjust invasion of his rights. Had a bill been brought forward in Congress any time these ten years past, decreoing and secur ing , absolute equality of rights throughout the jurisdiction of the federal authority, the Republican would have Been found giving it an earnest support. So if the present bill had been brought forward as a part of a peace policy, coupled with universal amnesty, and a truly na tional and healing administrative policy toward the southern States, we should have rejoiced at its passage. In its avowed objects it is beneficent; its most unpopular features have boon stricken out; tho worst thing about it, as a bill, is its odor of unconsti tutionality, and tho decision as to that belongs to the courts. , Under different circumstances it would have a positive moral valuo as a declara tion of tho mind of the government, quite apart from its political valuo as a piece of working legislation. But when tho olive branch is kin dlod at the embers of civil war, and thon preased into service us a fire brand, its usefulness, as an olive branch, is materially impaired. Couplod with force, bills, with incen diary reports from committees of northern Congressmen, with ominous threats from the White House, with an administrative policy which not only does not sook tho things that make for peuce but seeks tho things that make for war, this bill takes on a now and unuatural character. Pro jected into the South under such con ditions of irritation' and alarm, its value to the negro and the country can bo easily computod. The carrier dovo is one of the most innocent and usoful of birds. Tie a can of nitro glycerine to it, and it becomes a menace and a terror. It is almost impossible to exagger ate tho magnitude of tho interests at stake, at this moment, upon tho mod: oration and self-control of the best pooplo of tho South, and upon their success in controlling tneir more ignorant and excitable neighbors. Never haB a high-spirited pooplo found itself iu a case calling more urgently for the horoio virtuos jus tice, prudence, tompornnce, forti tudo. This is what Miunio Myrtle Miller writes to the San Francisco Chronicle: "Droani on, my Orogou I Love and love again, ye dwollerB by tho mar- Bins of tho soas 1 Land of humid airs and hoavouly drops, lot thy maidens blush and sigh to own the tondor passion; lot thy poota write sweet madrigals within thy dowy dingles, and fowor evils will bo doiio beneath tho dreamy shadows of thy hills than in lands where they love not." The odiior of the St. Paul, (Minn.) Press has read this effusive gush of Miunio, and remarks in an absout sort of a way that "poihaps; after all," tho world has bocu a little to sovere on Joaquin for hisdesortion of his family. ' Omo Radicals seem to object to having their candidates for Governor solected for tliem in Washington. Tho Toledo Blade tartly informs the thoughtful patriots who decided the other day that the Hou. B. F. Wade was tho best caudiduto for Guvoruor, that Ohio doosn't nood any dictation from Washington office-holders and lobbyists. Or.s. Shnneii, U. S. Treasurer, has resigned, and about throe hundred thousand fellows are beseiging Grant for his place. Gen. Spinner has been in the Treasury' Department pretty nearly always and has been ablo to chango his politics from time to time to keep iu with all sorts of Ad ministration. . Seuator McDounld of Indiana has been interviewed, and says that the Presidential nomine this timo must be a Western uuni, that is if tho Dem ocrats wish to succeed. He thiuks that Hendricks aud Gordon would niako a good team. : Ex-Govornor Ponuison, has de clined to bo a candidate forth Radi cal nomination for Governor of Ohio. Tho proposal to run tho lion. B. F. Wade agaimtt Governor Allen, since old men seviu so popular, is gaiuing favor. v ' otm ocnoco l'kttkb. Vurhy Tafca ;.ftfpga nomocracy Toll! v.-lutf wp aitiet do for political Salva tion. Kme ntwa about the IVeatlier ami future juioipectjl, etc Ocnoco Valley, Oregon, ) . . fi, March 15th 1875. ' Etlitor Democrat: The embargo that the Ice King laid on our mails has at last been raised and wo are permitted onco more to hear from the outside world, but tho news that firat camo to us that of bravo Pieg.m Phil's gallant campaign against State Eights didnt smother us with admiration for" the unique and original Brothor- in-law style of ruling our once Ee- publicau country. But then we should remember that this ia the death throes of tho Republican party. And as it has beau a great' party great in organization ; in intensity of purpose; in resources and all that goes to nxiko up a great party, it is bound to die hard. The brother-in-law's pathic treatment undor Dr. Grant, varied by frequent cases of mud, bribery, thiovery, and official corruption has laid tho onco grand old party on its death bed. And this delirious attack of Piogan's is only a suro sign that .death is not far dis tant, it may kick around ufco our old cows did this winter when' they were freezing, but it will infuse no now lifo in the dying body ; it only allows how hard its death is--how it hates to give up. But tho storm of popular indignation is too much for oven its iron constitution. The glimpse tbu people havo had lately of tho fraud, the corruption, the bribery and venality that now consti tute tho lifo and being of this party has been its ctoth warrant, for they are driving thousands away from its support and o'vory disaffection is a nail in its coffin. These glimpses are gotting worse. Tlioy show that the long series of frightful exposures which will forever stain the history of American politios Credit Mobil ior, San Domingo, tho Washington Ring, Pucifip Mail, Railroad Grauts, Subsidies divided, and last, but not least tho Momphis', Elpnso, Texa3 and Pacific Railroad havo only pouched tho surfuco of the" hideous mass of corruption that festers in and around Congress; pervading the whole atmosphoro of tho capital and pollutiny tho country. They' show that tho ruling party is stooped and soddoned in -venality, rotten all through and perishing of internal putrif action';, and Dr. Grant and his advisors are only hastening its disso lution. May it soon bo eased of its paius, and no furlbar dohrium afflict its friends, but may its end be like one of G rant's drunks-glorious. But then as each dyingcontortion reveals some thing uglier and nastier than the proceeding one tho Doctors shouldn't got mad and want to call some one Banditti and turn them over to truth ful Picgan for drunk-head trial and instant execution. The elections last fall strengthened the Domocratic Party in this vicinity immensely, for a considerable num ber of Doniocrats had bocomo dis- co'uragod and lost nil faith in the Democratic party (as a party, not principles) ovor gaining control of the Qovoriimcnt. They oould see no prpmiso of a party that would be so weak, so false to its toaching and pro tonsos as to take its bitterest oppo nant and placo him in the van as leader; aud if ever the oouutry was freed from the present ruling party and brought back to Democratic principles, it must ko through some other agency than tho Democratic party, do they loft us, and uniting with tho Republicans who had tired of Grantism, thoy fonuod tho "Inde pendent Party," which carried this county last Juno and which boastod that it would carry the State next election. ' But tho elections last fall showed that tho Old Democratic Party was yet a power iu the land, that it had rocovored from its almost fatal Groeloy mistake, and truo to its principles and teachings it could and would sweep our qpuutry of tho Ban ditti that aro making tho word "Re publican" svnonoinous with all that is corrupt and disreputable, and these Independent Democrats are in line iu tie old party onco moro. But you must not think by this that tho Indep ndwit J'arty is dead. The last CojigroM, Giaut's outrages in the Siouth, naticularly in Louisiana, his rockloss schoniiiig for the third term, tho revelations of corruption &o., lately given us, have killod the Re publican party, not literally but iu fact. From this ou there will Vie but two purues-'Indepeudunts and Democrats, llencetonh all tho Re publicans of Eastern Oregon, (and I wouldu't wonder that by 0, of the State, will work in opposition to what they term the Grant party ; some may join the Democrats but tho ma jority will bo Independents. How strong they will be, yet remains ;to be Keen. . ., If the Dvmocmts make no mistakes, the futuro of tho Democratic party can bo written iu ono word victory, and '7G will seo a Democrat clcctod President. But we must remember that wo will gain no strength by a temporizing- policy. Thero must be no moro compromising with what we belicvo to be wrong, aud above all tho Baltimore fiasco must not be re peated, we can not win under a Re publican leader be ho ever so (ifwaj, nor with oue word of Republicanism or policy iu our platforms. IVmo- ! crats will not work under such lead ers or on ouch a platform, and as for the Republicans, they havo about run Republicanism in all its shapes to death in their own party and if they come to us it will be to try something else. They havo followed Republican loaders . until thoy see our free government is about gone. And if wo will be Democrats; show a bold front to corruption; Bo now as ever in favor of official honesty ; in favor of each State attending to its own individual affairs, free from tho meddling of a corrupt President, and that the finances of the Government shall be used only for its legitimate purposes the carrying on of the Government and not for the private use of any King, clique, company or brother-in-law well, almost any thing in opposition to Grantism ; there will be more join us than under any other policy. ' We havo just got through a winter that will be remembered; not so much on account of tho snow as the cold. Tho cold was so intense here that every drop of water was frozen solid and hundreds of cattle starved to death for wont of water. Even wells that wore never before affected by the weather were frozen solid. The thermometer went as low aB 22" bo low zero and a few of the old cows went even lower, llie snow was never over six inches deep, but it put a hump iu tho stock.- Everybody hero lost more or less some severely. A Mr. Coon who came hero last fall with 800 head of sheep, has lost all but 30. Circle and Calloway, who brought a band of cattle late in the fall, have lost a good many. But as the grass is getting good now I hope that thero will bo no more die. The Grangers are going to start a store here. They have organized a company with a capital of $10,000, and havo bought out both Btoros at Prinesville and are now undor way. ino iirango at tuat place is in a flourishing condition there being several applications for membership at every meeting. They have a hand some hall well fitted up, carpets, curtains, picturosj furnituro, in fact everything prosperity. The farmers are all busy putting in thoir crops, but the ground is very dry, and if wo don't have a freshet we will not raise very laie crops. Rains here never affect anything; the ground is mois tened from the creeks or by an over flow. There is plenty of snow in the mountains but it is melting very slowly and does no good. FURBY TEETERS. Well Done. Goneral M. V. Brown has fully completed and turned ovor to tho binder, tno .Laws, Decis ions of the Supreme Court and tho Journals of the last Legislative ses sions. In justice to the State printer we will say that the work has been executed in a most excellent manner. A superior quality of book paper over that heretofore used by our State Printers has been used in the book work of the last session, clear and broad faced type, and the press work is far superior to that done on the Code in San Francisco. And consid ering the extraordinary quantity of work done- ifc iinw been -turned out with promptness and dispatch. One thing noticeable in General .brown s administration is that he has em ployed only first-class workmen, and paid first-class wages. The General has disbursed a good deal of money in our midst, and is a liberal gentle man. He returns to his home in Al bany, followed by the best wishes of this community for health, prosperity and happiness of himself and family. Salem Statesman. Work on the Walla Walla and Columbia River Kailroad iB now pro gressing in earnest. Grading from Dry Creek up is now going on satis factorily. .The route has been changed somewhat from the original survey, as the new line at Dry Creek passes 2,000 yards or so abovo Mr. Lowdiu's house. .This chaugo places the road ou better ground aud docs away with a good deal of filling as the ground is much more level, and is a great saving in the work of grading. It is deemed good economy to avoid all heavy fills in this light soil, the wind having a diaastrous effect upon all the einbark- ments composed of such material as is to bo found along the greater part of tho line between the terminal points. The mercury yield of San Lois Obispo county for the last month reached 500 flasks, it all being the pro ducts of two new mines. Au addi tional mine will start a furnuco soon, when the yield will aggregate not less than 000 flasks monthly. The Bulletin put up Grover and Corbett against Kosmitli and Slater for the next Senatorial race, which the same indicates that it has no ex pectation of any Radical having a finger in that pie. K'rcct. Two rival eel-fisherman in Maine, recently act fire to each other's huta whereupon a local paper montions it under the head of "A Paris Commuuo in Amoriea The Two-celeries Again iu a Blaze.-' A wicked New Englandor re marked, in the hearing of Mr. Dawos, recently, that there aro some who would straddle a fence until they split in two, ratlior than fall on either side. Liltlo Rhody proposes to have her census fciken. Thut'a ay enough lot tho people stand up aud be count ed. PACIFIC COASTERS. Farmers plowing in Oohoco Valley. Travel to Galico creek still contin- i-s. . : . One of tbo novelties of Mare Island is a VNaval Lyceum." Shipping has been very lively on tbo Sound the past month. Good steady bunds aro in demand at the Pugct Sound logging camps. lie was a Warm Spring Indian the moment he sat down on a hot stove, at the Cascades. Arigoni advertiBos his Astoria ho tel for sale. It is one of the first botols iu Oregon. Tho newspapers say that Hammond, the Revivalist, is making his pile specu. lating in Btock in California. Mark Twain says the Sandwich Islanders aro generally as unlettered as tho other side ot a tombstone. The Marion county jail has no oo cupant nt present. This speaks well for the morals of a county of so many inhabitants. 1 Tho boom that holds tho logs bo louging to the South Salem sawmill broke last Friday morning, but the loss was slight. The grand jury of Yamhill reports tho county jail unfit for the purposes for which it is used, and unsafe for the purpose ol keeping criminals. Several gentlemen of tho Dalles went down to Chenoworth creek on Friday of lust week and caught iu a short time 220 trout with a hook and line. Chas. Perkins, of Virginia City, got mad at his wifo and killed himself. Every husband don't do that; most of 'era cousole themselves by having fun with tho hired girl. On Tuesday evening of last week, James F. Robinson, High Priest of Eugene Chapter No. 10, was mado the recipient of a handsome emblem from the members of that chapter. Eggs are worth 50 cents a dozen at the Galice creek mines. Some one ought to start a poultry there. Rose- burg's facilities for reaching the mines are equal to those of Jacksonville. The Bedrock Uemocrat, of the 24th instant, says: Hay is getting short in Powder River Valley, but if the present pleasant weather continues there will not be much moro needed for stock before next Winter. AtFoster's Station, on tho California Pacifio Railroad, boty"". Davisvillo andDixon, WillettA ?ductor of a freight train, i -i'or on Monday morning by,oeial empty flat cars and shockingly injured. The Astorian says: Emma HoldeD, a little daughter of E. C. Holden, of the Astoria Restaurant, was hurt se verely while playing on some timbers at the ship yard on tho 19th. A heavy spar fell upon her, hurting her .head considerably, and bruising her limbs badly, but sho is getting along very well. The Yamhill Courier savs: "For the trial and keeping of Cook and AVyant will cost the county somewhere near 8500. Tho property they stole is worth so conpetent judges say not to exceed $10. Wo are in favor of giving a justice of the peace or county judge power to send this class of ombres to the penitentiary. When a Nevada railroad engineer detects a rag-baby on the track, he immediately reverses tho engino and stops tho train; but let him have i chance at a human being and he dash cs ahead at full speed, exclaiming to the coal-heaver, while a holy enthusi asm lights up liiBcountenance,"There's going to bo another angel born, Billy." A couple of Corvallis doga made a raid on Mr. F. A. Homing's fine sheep Friday night and Saturday morning last week, causing sad havoc. Out of a baud of forty head of choice Cots wolds, selected from his entire band not moro than fivo or six escaped death or serious injuries. Ont ol fif teen lambs, only four had been found. One of tho dos was killed on the spot. On Saturday, at Santa Barbara, a little son of Thos Philips had a narrow escape trom a horrible death. A steer being driven through the streets attacked him, tossing him over its head, and turned to go for him again, but the vaquerro rushed in with his horso and received the attack of tho steor. Tho animal was secured by a lasso attar it had gored the horse. Tho boy was not seriously injured. A painful report was current at Portland last week that a steamer had gone down iu Puget Sound with tho Fanny Morgan Phelps troupe on board and all wore lost; but Mm. Phelps writes to somo friends in Port land that tho vessel didn't go down at all; she was ouly playing "Blaok eyod Susan" for a low hours on a lil tlo more practical stage than ever belore. The storm was a fioroe one and the vessel had a hard fight with tho waves before she mads Port Townsond. The Salem Statesman says: About as careless a pieco of business as we havo lately heard of was the maimer in which James Kern, a young man of niuoteen, shot himself on Molalla Prairie last Friday morning. He saw a grouse in a tree, and to got a fair up into another tree, and pulling shot at the feathered biped, he climbed up his gun alW him by tho muzzle, the hammer caught and discharged the piece, the load going entirely tlrough tils hand. Two of bis fingers will probably have to be amputated. Clara Morris, the actress, in a letter from Sau Francisco to a friend, de scribes her visit to a Chinese, theatre. She was shown the room which suffi ces for a green room and dropping room, where she says, "a number of aotors woro ohanging their costumes, and the cool indifiorence, not to say gravity, with which they stripped themselves to the bare brown skin in my presence, was startling. I had somo difficulty in findjng a nook I could fix my' eyes on without being shocked." An almond-eyed actor asked "You act-co?" and when the' manager explained, "She muoh-eo big aot-ee," the greeting extended to her was vary cordial. Hon. I. N. Smith, of Linn county, and Capt. Gist, late of tho Bteamer Success,, havo been examining tbo chaquol of tho Willamette river along both sides of the large island above Albany. They report having found that the cast channel, which was, in the early stages of.steamhoating on the river, considered the main chan nel, but which has since been aban doned, has again -become practicable, having in faot, a greater depth ot wa ter and fewer obstructions than tho channel on the west side. Tho island is about nine miles long and tho river bauks, on the Linn county side, is thickly settled, and it will be a wel- oome sound to those farmers to hear again the familiar sound of tho steam boat, and to have a chance to ship di rect from their farms as in days gone by.. - SHERIFF'S SALE. BY VIRTUE OP A DECREE OF FOIIE closure and an order of sale mid an exe cution Isued out of the Circuit Court, or tho Htate of Oregon, fr Linn county, to mo di rected and dullvered, for the sum of six thou sand two hundred Jllty-seven and nlnety-hvo oue-hundredthB, (tu,257 U5-10D) dollars In Unltod States, gold coin, with interest thereon, at the rate of one per cent, per month irom March 8th, 1875, and the further sum of fivo hundred dollars, ($50U.) with Interest at the rule of ten per cent, per annum, irom Mureh Bth, lff75, and tho sum of twenty-elglit ninety one-hundredtlis, (iM 9U-100) dollars, costs ol sultia favor of Louis Fleitmnur, Wo I. Ilirach and Alexander Schlussel, partners, undur the firm name of L. FlulBehncr & Co., and UKatnst tiio Eiigto Woolen Mills Company, a corpora tion duly Incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon. 1 have leried upon, and will proceed to sell at public unction to (.he highest blddor, for United btates, gold coin in hand, paid on day of sale, In front of the Court Uouse door, In the Cily or Albany, Llun county, Ore gon, on JMday the 30th t of April, 1875, at thi hour of one o'clock i. m. of said dny. In accordance wibh said decree, and tlte order 01 sak therein contained and in the manner prescribed by law, all the lollowlnt; described niHeea. nnreels or tracts of land to-wit : Commencing ut a point thirty-one (31) chains east and lour (4) chains and llHy (50) links South irom the .North-west corner of 11. 11. ypauming's iJonation i.anu uiaim, una run ning thence Houth six (U) chains and fifty (60) links, thence West two (2) chains and ninetv- rIx fliUI links, thence North lour (4) chains and sixty-live (t) links, thenae JSorth illty-elght (58) degrees East three (!!) chains and litty (M) links to the place of beginning, containing one acre aud sixty-lour one-iiundredths of an acre, being atid situate in Linn county In the Ktate of Oregon. Also all the following described pieco or par col of land situate in said Linn county, Ure gon, bounded and described as follows, begin ning at a point, imriy-ouu (ii; ciiuiiih v,nsi ana four (1) chains and ilfty (50) links Houth from tho tiorth-west corner of H. H. Bpauldlng's land claim iu the County of Linn and (Slate of Oregon, being notincation 2,351 in Townupip 18 South Kange 2 West (I.e.) nt tho North-east corner oi a iract ui muu uueucu uy wiinam McHannio and Junius Blake ly to the Linn County Woolen Mills Company, and running cnonce iortn eigiuy-eigiu. (rwj units co me waters edire in the inill-raco. thence Houth filtv- eitrht (58) decrees West nionir the edtre of tho water in the mill-race aforesaid four (4) chalim and filteoii 15 links, thence Wouth seven (7 degrees Kast four 4j chains and thirty links to tite South-west corner of the tract deedi'd bv .oioHanrua and 11 hike v aloresaid, thenoe Houth seven (7) degrees Enst three (3) chains, tno nee jsast iw (zj cnains and sixty-nine (lit)) links, thence North two (2) chains and nlnety-oluht (118) links to the South east corner of a tract deeded by Mcllargue und Bhikely as aforesaid, theneo West along the Southern boundary of said tract two (2) chains aud ninety-six (tH links to the South-west cor ner thereof, thence North along the Western boundary of said tract to the North-west cor ner thereof, four chains and sixty-five links, tLence North llfty-eight (58) degrees East along Nortiiern boundary of said tract three (3) chains and flitv (50) links to the nlace of be- ginninyand containing ono and seventy-four ono-uuuureuius acres more or less. Also tho following described real property conveyed uy ooeu to tne 1'resiaeni aim Direc tors of tho Linn County Woolen Mills Com- nany. bv William Mcllargue, Andrew J. War ren and A. S. Ilassett, described in said deed as folllows, to-wlt: Tho undivided one-half of the entire right to construct or build a dnm aeioss the Oalipooia Kiveron the land claim of Hugh Field, of sufficient height to turn the water of said stream at or whero said race Is dmr. also so much of tho water of said stream. as is necessary to run a mill and other ma chinery which they Intend to build and Is now in operation anu course oi construction on land eonveved bv H. II. Snnuidlng Hen., also land on either side of a line hereinafter de scribed of sulhcleiit width and depth to lurntxh tho nloresiild mill and other machincrv ex cepting and reserving a suflleieiit quantity or water lor the usf of stock, and also tho privil ege of fencing and bridging the same, so tli at tney ao not oostruci me water or otnerwise in jure the race, commencing at a stake on the North bank of said stream, on tho land claim or iiuirn r ieius, uearine eoutn twenty-nin (20) degrees West from the South-east corner Ol ine fioutn-wesfc quarter oi nection miny throe f&'l) in Township Hi Mouth of the huso lino, and ltange two (2) West of the Willam ette Me.ldlan and eleven (11) chains and filly eight (58) links dlntant and running thence rtonn tniny-timo uejireus aim inin.y minutes West three (8) chains, thence Nonh ihlrty-slx ita degrees West two 2 chains, tnenoo North thirty-nine (-19) degrees West five to cha nsand imy oil units, tnenee Nor h sixty-one til degrees West two 2 chains and fif ty 50 links, thence North seventy-nine degrees West two 2j chains and tift r 50 units, tnenoo ivonn soveniy-st" en ucgnn's West three 3 chains, thence South elghty olght 88) degrees West two 2 chains and filly 50 links, thence South eighty-two 82 de crees West, three r-11 chains, thence South eiirh- ty-eight 88 degrees West, ono chain and fifty ooj jiuKstotne went mie ui siuu jami ciairn and to the East line of Wm. R. Kirk's land claim and commencing at a stake ou the East line of O. W. Kirks land, thence South eighty eight 88 degrees West two 2 chains, thence North seventy-three f78 decrees West five 151 chains, thence North seventy-four 74 degrees west nve i cnains, mence iortn seveniy nin I7UJ degrees West three 81 chains and llftv hfl links, thenoe North seventy-one (711 degrees West one 1 chain and fifty W links 5 chains and flity 50 links to the East lino of Wm. It. Kirk's land, thence North clghty nlne (!t degrees Wtisttwo (2) chains and fitly 5t) links, thence North fllty-six (5) rtegrees West three chains, thence North sixty-two Iti2j degrees West four (4) chains, thence North !vtntv-slx 17W) decrees West two (2) cluifns thoneo South eighty-six (80) degrees West three chains and filly links, thence ftouth eighty (HO) degrees West onolj chain, and thence Houth sixty-two HI21 degrees West one (I) chain and liny l-xe linns, ineiieit muui uim y-vi- ion ur grees West two chains and tllly (50) links, ii..nnn N'nrth ctL'hlv iSOl decrees Went one 111 ehain and fifty 5ui links, thenee West one (1) chain, t hence North seven ty-seven (77) degrees West live !&) chains and titty 50 links, thence North fifty-two 52 degrees West two (2) chains and fifty (oOj links, ttieneo rorui nny-seveu (57) degrees West two (21 chains, thence North slxtv-llve (i5) degrees WVst three t il chains, thence North Ally-three (53i decrees West four 4 chains, thence North sevcnty-orm (71) de- irrees West seven (7) chains and fitly (") links, thenoe North sixty-five ftl5i degrees West temlU) Piiaftu them North oiirhUw k it (Hni decrees West tw i (2) chains and lllty -!) links, thenee North sevenly-ninedyi uegrees west mree chains and six i links to the Enst line of A. J. Wurren's and. ninninir meneo itortn seventy nine (Till degrees West eleven (II) chnius, thence Amth elgiity-lour tsii degrees West one (1) chuin and litty (50) links, thence South eiglity- two (H2? degrees est two (2) ennuis nu nny (50) links, thence North eighty d. crees West two 12! chains and thirty I'-iti) links to the Enst line of 11. H. Spanldlng, Jr., land and thenee ,irth ilihiY-iifiie ifflti decrees West, four Ui chains, theneo North sity-nlfte ta) d.-gn-es WfBt lour 4 cha ns. thence onti seventy four 74 decrees West one 1) chain, thence South BfvctUy-one 7 drives West one fl! chain ami fifty i-io1 links. thnce South eighty six t'i degrees West live 5) chains, them South eighty-six !St; di'gre; West two -.rcli.it ns tlu-ncw West three U chains, theiin Jsorth eitrhty three S-i! degrees Wi st two chains ami twenty-seven L-7 i Units, to the East line of H. II. spiiMhir. Ir'R. land, niniiii.g tlu-ne North eighty-aix il degrees West one I chain, thence boutn sixiy-nme hm nr-:-' W.-u one I il eliam and llftv !'! (Inks, thence South sixty-tlx degrees W est one Mi elm tit. thence fsoutn ncy-tour agrees west ti;rv :t( chains and soty-six i) links to the Wen hue of 11. II. .pnuUliitg Jr'. land, them-i South sixty-lour (M) d re1 West iSi chain and twfiiiv-nme f't links, thence Sotith sixty eurht it dgrws Wt two 12) chums ant twelve llnfcn to the Weft aid of thi wati Bate between the null and lh iACtnry In I, hit County, in the Kt.fj? of Oregon, Utf'-!ln-r vtth nil and singular the tf'nein- j.tji, h' rei.tamei,i nnd app'rienTiiK1' thereunto belonging w iu anywtaw apvTtsinHn: tou(yiMtid kxi-euilon, iMUeU, AUwuy, tarch Kh. !.". uMwi Sheriff oi Uun County, l IIUJUIi. !ll.1y.wwa ADVERTISEMENTS. nqwceT AltHTIN MOnRtSON. TORMKICLY OF Mo DonoURh County, Illinois, can I Jnr Lfl thlnn to Ills advnntaiM by mlUrUsh,,. J Box U0 Albany, Linn County, oVS k vlOnwtr. , I HAS. E. H OLVEKTOSf ATTOUNEY AND COOSELBE AT Uw,' ALDANY, OllEUON. fetoro, on the oimil of I'l-onl una Brondaluln str',pt- : IHM ALBANY BATH HOUSE AND-- BARBER SHOP ! fBMTE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RRRPpr-r JL fully thank the citizens of Ait,,.,,,, : vicinity far tho liberal. patronage beatowod uu on htm for the past seven years, and hones tue tho future a eontlnunnoo of their favors For the nccommodutlon of transient customers and friends in tho upper part of town ho hug opened ft neat little shop next door to Wont goniory & Taylor's saloon, where a good work- iiiuii win ttimijo w in uciiuunru to wait UllOD. patrons. , JUK. WEBBER. VIUIIZUU, OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY virtue of mi execution Issued nut. of t.i.n County Court of the county of Linn, Btnte of Gregon, In lavorof Jaooh Honders aud Benja min llrenner against Martin Gray, for the sum of two hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-six and two-third cents, gold coin of the , uuiteu nuiLes anu ior costs anu uisuursenients ' In the sum of twenty-two dollars and seventy live oents and accruing costs, duly attested the Uth day of March, 1875, and to me directed and delivered. 1 havo levied upon all the right, title, interest and estate which tho said Martin Gray had of, in, and to tho following described real estate, on the 8th day of January, 1S75, to-wlt Apart oi too uomuion lunu-ciuim oi James Bhikely. situated in Section 0. in Townshin 14 Houth Range a West of Wlllnmette Meridlnn , in Linn county, Btate of Oregon, commencing : at the Houth-east corner of Block No. 13, In tho town of Brownsville, In said county, and running tnenee r.ast u rous, tucnoe rsorih -rods, thence West t rods, thence Houth 8 rods to tho place of beginning, containing 72 square rous, i win on Monday i the 12th day of April, 1875, at tho court house door iu the city of Albany, in saiu ijiuii county, at. tuc nour 01 one o ClOCK In the afternoon of that day, sell at nubile auc tion, all the right, title, Interest-and estate of the said Martin Gray tu and to the above de- . scribed real cstato, lor cash, goiu com of tho United States, to satisfy said execution, costs and acccrulng coptn. L. O. RICE, unerin oi ijinn uouuty, uga. FOR THE SPRING TRADE! The Treadwell Combined tiling and Sulky Plows STATESMAN SEED DRILLS the only force feed djill, ON THE COAST. Call and oxamine my large stock of agricul tural implements. Wnrerooms on Hecond street, one block cast of the "Democrat" build ing. FRANK WOOD. Vl0n32tf. AIMINI$TRATOttS SALE REAL ESTATE. IJUIHilC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtuo of an order made by the County Court, within and for the County of Linn, Stnto of Oregon, on the 4th day of March, 1S75, in tho matter of tho estate of Ell. B. Moore, deceased. We, the undersigned Ad ministratrix and Administrator of tbo estate of the said deceased, will on Monday, the 10th day of April, 1S75, at tho Court House door In tho city of Albany, in said County of Linn, at thw hour of one o'clock In tho eyenlng of that day, offer for sate at publio auction tho undivided half of the following described real estate, belonging to the said estato and situ tt to in said county, to-wlt : ' Fractional river lot No. two and tho North half of fractional river lot No. one, In McCully's addition to the City of Harrlsburg; also fractional river lot No. two In tins original Cily, of Harrisburg; al o the Houth half of the Houth-east quarter of Section No. 32; the South half of the Houth west quarter of Meet ton No. 1W, In township H South, and the North half of the N. W. quar ter, of Section 4, and the North -half of the North-east quarter of Section fj, in Township 15, South, nil irr Rango No. a, West, containing ai:i 57-UH) acres. Tkums: Suld real estate will bo sold for cash, gold coin, ouo half to, ho paid down on the day of sale, aud tlie remainder In six months ; secured by niortgago on tho premises, ANN It. MOO UK, Administratrix. JAM EH RILEY, Administrator. Johns 4 Jonjm Atty's. niw4. . STATE RIGHTS DMOCRAT. dest Democratic Paper in Oregon. OFFICIAL PAPER FOIt THE STATE. HAS THE LARGEST C'IRtTLA. TIOJI OF ANY- PROVINCIAL PAPER OS THE PACIFIC COAST. Is a newsy, rauy, live, progressiva and aggressive Journal; and having been Democratic in the long, dark days of our party's despondoncy, can afford to be Democratic now, when naught hut sunshine streams across ita pathway. Being published in the great agricultural heart . of the Wil lamette Valley, it is devoted to tho interests of the husbandman, bs well as to every other branch of honest industry. Its circulation is rapidly increasing, and its prosperity unex ampled in Oregon journalism. 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